Take, for example, the suspender, an accessory that used to be associated with nerds like TV's Steven Urkel, but is now a legitimate fashion statement. According to the Tucson Citizen, the suspender's biggest fans may very well reside in Anchorage.

Suspender businessman Sal Herman, an Israeli immigrant now living in the states, created his first Internet based store in 1997. By 1998, Herman's store moved into the wholesale business, and by this year Herman's Hold-Up Suspenders Co. was supplying suspenders to 2,400 stores nationwide. The Tucson Citizen writes: